you
have just never felt 100% after gandular fever - ranging from mild
troubles to glandular fever and chronic fatigue.

you have
an actual diagnosed glandular fever
recurrence (epstein barr virus reactivation) - this can happen
in
some cases.

you
want to make sure you are doing everything you can in glandular fever recovery.

you
are struggling with glandular fever
and post viral fatigue, chronic fatigue or ME, thought
to have stemmed from glandular fever, EBV or a similar virus.

you
are sporty but have never been able to get back in to exercise after
glanadular fever (EBV) without suffering fatigue and immune troubles - post glandular fever and exercise
can be problematic seemingly due to a much lower stamina threshold.

you would
like avice on how to support balanced immunity, supporting a sluggish
liver, addressing low energy levels and coping with stress after
glandular fever (stress is the enemy of many post glandular fever
troubled individuals).

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Caused
by the Epstein Barr virus (E.B.V.),
glandular fever's correct name is infectious mononucleosis (I.M.). In
the
United States and Canada it is known as mononucleosis or mono.
In all other English speaking countries it is known as glandular fever.
It
is less commonly known as Pfeiffer's Disease or Filatov's
disease.
A similar condition is caused by cytomegalovirus (CMV) but this gives a
negative heterophile antibody test result for glandular fever (monospot
test is the common heterophile
antibody test for
glandular fever). Epstein
Barr Virus,
therefore, is usually the attributed virus to glandular fever.

Spread via saliva, glandular fever has an incubation period of up to 7
weeks. Acute
glandular fever symptoms
can persist for a few weeks but fatigue can continue. Nobody
is
really sure how long someone remains contagious but it is thought that
in some cases this may be many months. Diagnosis can sometimes be
troublesome if not tested at exactly the right time. The battery of
tests for Epstein Barr Virus can be useful to perform if glandular
fever symptoms are there, but other results for glandular fever remain
negative (i.e. the monospot test mentioned above). This battery of
tests will show whether in fact you have had EBV in the past (at some
point) and may help attribute the symptoms and fatigue to a past
occurence or glandular fever which may have left you with on-going post
viral glandular fever / EBV troubles. send enquiry to Glandular
Fever Help
Services if you would like practical help /direction in managing your
health / energies with this type of unexplained but possibly
glandular fever related trouble.

If the glandular fever fatigue
continues, the scenario is
often reffered to as glandular fever and
post viral
fatigue
syndrome (PVFS) or chronic
fatigue syndrome (CFS). If fatigue and symptoms persist for more
than
6 months after the acute glandular fever, it can be referred to as M.E.
(Myalgic
Encephalopathy).
Gina Burton who runs her glandular fever help service feels that the
term ME is very unhelpful to those continuing with troubles after
glandular fever, so prefers to refer to this health scenario as
"on-going post glandular fever syndrome". On-going post glandular fever
troubles can and do
occur in a
number of cases.Theglandular
fever help services linkis a very
useful one if this is your problem. It offers a service to
support and advise you, as you try and
get back on track again by offering lots of practical recommendations
to impliment, concentrating on foods and specific nutrient complexes
which would be conducive to supporting a sluggish body, alongside all
sorts of other bits of practical advice to set you on your way. These
recommendations will begin to help you learn how to manage your health
and energy levels as effectively as possible over the long term.

Most
of the acute
glandular fever symptoms disappear after a
few weeks.
Rest for at least a month is ideal.
Symptoms can continue, on an off, for a few months, but in some cases
much longer.
In a number of cases, 100% health and energy levels are
not regained afterwards. From Gina Burton's experience (who
runs
Glandular Fever Help Services) it seems that on-going troubles tend to
persist in those glandular fever cases which were either: particulalry
harsh; had some sort of liver
involvement during the acute illness; where no time was taken off from
work during the acute phase and where the body was pushed too far, too
early on in recovery.

not
being able to stand lots of noise, people or strong smells (perfume,
cleaning materials etc.) .

not
feeling all there

digestive
inbalance - bloating and pain often cited in lower abdomen.

The level
of energy
can fluctuates
so that a few good days and weeks may be followed by energy
slumps, fatigue, and bad bouts of glandular fever
symptoms.
Delayed fatigue is very common in these cases where exercise,
excitement and/or stress
brings on the extreme
fatigue a few days after the event. Glandular Fever relapse can occur
when bad bouts of all the old symptoms can strike, leaving the
body struggling to get back to where it was. Actual diagnosed glandular
fever recurrence is not unknown, but often the symptoms return along
with the heavy fatigue but without a new positive diagnosis. If these
sort of troubles continue it is referred to as post viral fatigue
syndrome. If the fatigue continues it can be referred to chronic
fatigue. If you would
like some practical help and direction
with
the management of these types of ongoing glandular fever troubles, then
do send a
message to glandular fever help services and Gina will see if
she can be of practical assistance.

Many
young sports people suffer with glandular fever and struggle
afterwards. It can be incredibly frustrating if you are keen to return
to your training but it is important to slowly get back in to it as
troubles can greatly worsen if the body is put under too much physcial
stress too early on in recovery. Many people coming through to Gina
Burton's Glandular Fever Help Services have a sports and training
background - over 85% of help enquiries actually. If you would like some practical help
and
direction with the management of these types of ongoing glandular fever
troubles alongside your sport, then do send a message
to glandular fever help services
and Gina will see if she can be of practical assistance. As well as
being a trained nutritional therapist specialising in helping those
suffering post glandular fever, she has a bachelor hons degree in
Sports
Science and is also a keen sportsperson herself (so understands both
the frustrations an implications involved).

Unlike claims
to the contrary, there are no miracle quick fix treatment cures for
chronic
glandular fever (on-going glandular fever post viral tiredness
problems). The support and advice service (Glandular Fever Help
Services) is run by Gina Burton. She tries to
help as many people as possible with the trials and
tribulations of
glandular fever recovery and the symptoms which can hang around
afterwards.
A new service has been trialling for a year, so more people
can receive Gina's advice and recommendations. In the old system Gina
charged fully for her time.
After
sending a summary of your glandular fever history (click here to do
this),
Gina will
reply
with some initial comments. If you are then interested in pursuing her
help she will send you further comments and then some further
health/symptom/energy/eating
questions to
complete.
On
checking through and assessing your information, Gina will then begin
to complile a comprehensive set of eating recomendations alongside a
document of personalised
comments and pointers, other protocols as appropriate
(often put together
with extra back-up
support from an immune specialist clinical herbalist where needed). She
will then leave you to start working on changes but checking in with
you at various points over the following 9 months and offering follow
up recommendations as you go. This is all part of her service.Gina
does not charge
fully for this service (for her thinking time, initial e-mails, putting
comprehensive and personalised recomendations and protocols together
over a couple of days, follow up e-mails and on-going advice over the 9
month period). A
minimum of 10-15 hours is usually ploughed in to each case.
She does ask for a one-off donation of £100 to help keep her Help
Service going however.

Gina has helped
over 2000 glandular
fever sufferersall over
the
world, since
she started her Glandular Fever Help Services in 1998.

She has a great
empathy with the frustrating situation you find yourself in, having
gone
through it all herself. She has always been a very keen sportsperson
and
therefore understands the frustrations suffered by many people who
struggle with
this illness and struggle to get back to their old levels of activity.
It
is very common for young, bright and talented sports competitors
to come down with glandular fever. However over the last few
years
many older people have come through to Gina for advice. As
well as
studying and
qualifying as a nutritional therapist (originally to see if she could
start to help herself with post glandular fever toubles) and having a
good
knowledge of other complimentary therapies, Gina has a bachelor honours
degree in sports science.